via Direland from Inside Higher Ed: To Honor a Boycott or Not?

To Honor a Boycott or Not?

Philosophers have had plenty to debate in advance of this week’s meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.

The meeting is at San Francisco’s Westin St. Francis Hotel, which is currently subject to a boycott organized by labor groups upset over pay and working conditions. Some scholars have advocated moving the meeting to another location, as the Organization of American Historians recently did.

But the leaders of the philosophy group — in a letter posted on a Cornell philosopher’s Web site — said that a poll of program participants found that most did not want to relocate the meeting to San Jose or another location. The letter noted that large academic meetings are typically set up well in advance, and that many meeting participants had made plans that would be difficult and expensive to change. The letter also acknowledged that moving the meeting at this late date could create serious financial difficulties for the association. (more)

And progressives wonder why ordinary working folk think the intellectual left hasn't a clue? Shameful. Utterly shameful.